“I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that’s who I am,” she told PEOPLE Monday night in Los Angeles at the announcement of the show’s new cast.

Bristol, 19, wants to make sure she sets a good example for her son, Tripp, 20 months, who “loves dancing around [and] bopping his head,” she says. “I see this as something that’s fun and that’s positive and I’m going to be able to show my work ethic to people out there.”

Well, that seems fair! You don’t want to come back from L.A. and find your 20-month-old son all tarted up in some slinky, revealing outfit, gyrating around your slob-compound like some kind of pole dancer.

“I want to set a good example for all of the amazing moms out there,” the 19-year-old told RadarOnline.com exclusively. “Yes, we can balance work and family, and we can also take on a new and exciting challenge.”

You too can take on exciting challenges, amazing moms! Hopefully your exciting challenges will have childcare, like Dancing With The Stars probably does. If not, you can just leave your kid at home alone with the dog, who almost certainly won’t eat the little tyke.

Anyway, a final word of warning for Bristol: we know you are determined to maintain your high moral standards while on television, but the pressure of competition can be intense. You’ll want to win, really badly, and the producers will hint that maybe if you just go a little sexier it will help you with the judges, and then you’ll find your hands drifting towards your collar, as if on their own accord, and then you’ll start pulling, and then this will happen:

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